PJD St John Standard Apprentice Andertons Exclusive Stealth Edition

We are pleased to offer these limited, Andertons exclusive PJD Stealth Edition guitars. Spec’d in-house by our purchasing team these guitars take three or PJD's biggest sellers and turns them up to the next level with custom pickups, Ebony fingerboards and finished in a stealthy black finish with matching headstock.

The Stealth Edition St John Standard Apprentice comes equipped with a Wadfather Humbucker 'Stealth Edition' in the bridge position. Its articulate and dynamic and respondes well to the volume and tone controls. The PJD Stealth St John Standard Apprentice is constructed using lightweight Obeche which helps provide a balanced resonant tone that is perfectly complimented with the articulation and attack of the Ebony fingerboard. This versatile British-built offset guitar comes fully equipped with a deluxe gig bag and is PLEK’d at the factory for the ultimate playing experience!

Key Features

• Stealth Edition - Fully decorated in black! The PJD Stealth Editions feature an elegant all-black body with matching headstock and Ebony fingerboard.
• PLEK’d - Every PJD guitar is run through a PLEK Machine – A state of the art computer-controlled fret levelling machine providing the most precise setup imaginable!

Andertons' own Ben on working With Leigh and PJD

“We have a unique and close working relationship with Leigh and the PJD team since we began stocking their guitars back in 2021, The process for specifying guitars, new models and concepts is often an open discussion and results in some exceptional instruments at a great price”

“We loved the platform of the standard series guitars and wanted to have something a little different that you could only get at Anderton’s, so we came up with the “Stealth Edition” with upgraded features such as overwound pickups, painted black Headstock and ebony fingerboard for a more aggressive looking and sounding guitar, certainly a series aimed towards the alt-rock and metal players”

“My personal favourite model is “The York”; I’ve always loved the simplicity of a bolt-on neck, fixed bridge guitar and the York is just that with great styling and a unique body shape”

PJD’s Leigh on designing the Stealth Edition pickups:

“For the Stealth series of guitars we customised the PJD standard range of pickups to better suit the needs of the contemporary metal player. Our first instinct when making a metal pickup was to go with a high-output/high wind-count pickup. However, we felt that this is something of an outdated concept, due to the equipment that players use these days. Back in the day, you'd rock up to a gig and you could be pretty sure there'd be half a dozen 100W tube amps on the backline, waiting for the bands to set up before playing. Nowadays everyone uses digital emulators and then plugs into the PA - this deserves a different approach to designing a pickup.”

“When you're trying to get a great metal tone out of a tube amp, the number one aim is to clip (distort) the first gain stage (tube) to get that tone, so you want a really hot pickup. When you plug into a digital unit, that first gain stage is a silicone transistor and you don't want it to clip. What you want is a nice clean signal that the digital stage can manipulate. Based on this, we've decided to keep the output at a medium level, so they can be used well with either type of hardware. We instead focused on delivering a very balanced response which can easily be manipulated with EQ and effects to get your tone, because there really isn't such a thing as a ‘metal’ tone - it can vary as much as all other kinds of music. We didn't want to box players into one sound, but instead provide a tool that can be harness to create your own sound.”

PJD Guitars

Founded as a one-man operation in 2010 by Leigh Dovey, PJD has steadily grown into one of the largest British guitar manufacturers. Originally based in London from a small home workshop, Leigh inherited his love and passion for woodwork at an early age from his father, a prop maker for the Royal Opera House in Covent Gardens. 7 years later, the operation was moved to a larger facility in York where PJD has gone from strength to strength. Built using the finest materials and components and built with a level of care and attention that could only be achieved in this sort of workshop, PJD has grown a steady reputation as some of the finest guitars available. With standardised models and offerings to suit every type of player from their bare-bones Apprentice line-up to the full-bore Custom Shop range, there is a PJD for everyone.

Specifications

Body

• Body: Solid Obeche
• Finish: Satin

Neck

• Frets: Jescar Nickel
• Number of Frets: 22 Medium
• Scale Length:25.5
• Neck Wood: Maple
• Profile: Standard C
• Fretboard Radius: 10”
• Finish: Nitrocellulose
• Nut Width: 42mm
• Fretboard Wood: Ebony
• Nut: 42mm Bone

Hardware

• Bridge: Gotoh
• Tuners: Gotoh SD-91
• Hardware Finish: Nickle

Electronics

• Bridge Pickup: Wadfather Humbucker 'Stealth Edition'
• Controls: Volume

Miscellaneous

• Case: Deluxe Gig Bag (Included)